Updated at November 5, 2024 by BirthdayDBs Team
Full Name | Gerrie Coetzee |
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Birthdate | April 08, 1955 |
Birth Place | South Africa |
Age (in 2024) | 69 Years Old |
Zodiac | Aries |
Occupation | Boxer |
Gerrie Coetzee is best known as Boxer who has born on April 08, 1955 in South Africa. Currently, Gerrie Coetzee is 69 years, 6 months and 27 days old. Gerrie Coetzee will celebrate 70th birthday on Tuesday, 8th of April 2025. Below the countdown to Gerrie Coetzee upcoming birthday.
The first boxer from Africa to fight for, and win, a world heavyweight title. He was WBA Heavyweight champion from 1983 to 1984.
He started his professional career with a staggering 22 consecutive victories.
His nickname was The Bionic Hand because of the trouble he always had with his right hand, which underwent several surgeries.
He has children named Gerald and Lana.
He beat Leon Spinks via TKO on June 24, 1979, a fight which the referee stopped just two minutes in.
Gerrie Coetzee is 69 years old today.
Gerrie Coetzee was born on April 08, 1955 in South Africa.
Gerrie Coetzee zodiac sign is Aries.
Gerrie Coetzee was best known as Boxer.
Here's quick list of some fun facts about Gerrie Coetzee's birthday you must know including detailed age calculation, western astrology, roman numeral, birthstone and birth flower.
Below are historical events that coincided with Gerrie Coetzee's birthday including important historical events as well as births and deaths of historical figures.
Year | Event |
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1968 | BOAC Flight 712 catches fire shortly after takeoff. As a result of her actions in the accident, Barbara Jane Harrison is awarded a posthumous George Cross, the only GC awarded to a woman in peacetime. |
1970 | Bahr El-Baqar primary school bombing: Israeli bombers accidentally strike an Egyptian school. Forty-six children are killed. |
1975 | Frank Robinson manages the Cleveland Indians in his first game as major league baseball's first African American manager. |
1987 | Los Angeles Dodgers executive Al Campanis resigns amid controversy over racist remarks he had made while on Nightline. |
1992 | Retired tennis great Arthur Ashe announces that he has AIDS, acquired from blood transfusions during one of his two heart surgeries. |
1993 | The Republic of North Macedonia joins the United Nations. |
1993 | The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on mission STS-56. |
2004 | War in Darfur: The Humanitarian Ceasefire Agreement is signed by the Sudanese government, the Justice and Equality Movement, and the Sudan Liberation Movement/Army. |
2005 | A solar eclipse occurs, visible over areas of the Pacific Ocean and Latin American countries such as Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia and Venezuela. |
2006 | Shedden massacre: The bodies of eight men, all shot to death, are found in a field in Shedden, Elgin County, Ontario. The murders are soon linked to the Bandidos Motorcycle Club. |
2008 | The construction of the world's first skyscraper to integrate wind turbines is completed in Bahrain. |
2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev sign the New START Treaty. |
2013 | The Islamic State of Iraq enters the Syrian Civil War and begins by declaring a merger with the Al-Nusra Front under the name Islamic State of Iraq and ash-Sham. |
2014 | Windows XP reaches it's standard End Of Life and is no longer supported |
2020 | Bernie Sanders ends his presidential campaign, leaving Joe Biden as the Democratic Party's nominee. |
1986 | The birth of Félix Hernández, Venezuelan-American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Royston Drenthe, Dutch footballer |
1987 | The birth of Jeremy Hellickson, American baseball player |
1987 | The birth of Elton John, Trinidadian footballer |
1987 | The birth of Sam Rapira, New Zealand rugby league player |
1988 | The birth of Jenni Asserholt, Swedish ice hockey player |
1990 | The birth of Kim Jong-hyun, South Korean singer (d. 2017) |
1993 | The birth of Viktor Arvidsson, Swedish ice hockey player |
1994 | The birth of Josh Chudleigh, Australian rugby league player |
1995 | The birth of Cedi Osman, Turkish professional basketball player |
1996 | The birth of Anna Korakaki, Greek Olympic medalist in shooting |
1997 | The birth of Kim Woo-jin, South Korean singer |
1997 | The birth of Saygrace, Australian singer and songwriter |
1997 | The birth of Arno Verschueren, Belgian professional football player |
2002 | The birth of Skai Jackson, American actress |
2013 | The death of Sara Montiel, Spanish-Mexican actress and singer (b. 1928) |
2013 | The death of José Luis Sampedro, Spanish economist and author (b. 1917) |
2013 | The death of Margaret Thatcher, English politician, first female Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1925) |
2014 | The death of Emmanuel III Delly, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1927) |
2014 | The death of Karlheinz Deschner, German author and activist (b. 1924) |
2014 | The death of Ivan Mercep, New Zealand architect, designed the Te Papa Tongarewa Museum (b. 1930) |
2015 | The death of Jayakanthan, Indian journalist and author (b. 1934) |
2015 | The death of Rayson Huang, Hong Kong chemist and academic (b. 1920) |
2015 | The death of Sergei Lashchenko, Ukrainian kick-boxer (b. 1987) |
2015 | The death of David Laventhol, American journalist and publisher (b. 1933) |
2015 | The death of Jean-Claude Turcotte, Canadian cardinal (b. 1936) |
2019 | The death of Josine Ianco-Starrels, Romanian-born American art curator (b. 1926) |
2020 | The death of Rick May, American-Canadian voice actor (b. 1940) |
2020 | The death of Abdul Momin Imambari, Bangladeshi Islamic scholar (b. 1930) |
2022 | The death of Mimi Reinhardt, Austrian Jewish secretary (b. 1915) |
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